biggermike

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by biggermike 6y ago
> What if he's not dead? Then you wouldn't be inheriting anything in the legal sense of the word. That's why it's a contrived scenario -- it doesn't exist in reality. Besides, the point is moot, as Medicaid nurs
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by biggermike 6y ago
> If you end up inheriting money from a distant uncle, you have to pay back. If you inherit money from a distant uncle, your uncle is presumably no longer alive to utilize state provided long-term care and you don't have to pay anyt
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by biggermike 6y ago
> Medicaid is not "free" there are requirements, but assuming you qualify, there are hidden costs. Like for example. Totally different program (medicaid nursing home care) and not relevant because (1) it isn't medical care
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by biggermike 6y ago
> You still have to pay for it. You don't, actually. Medicaid is a de-facto single payer system (with the caveat that it's funded by both federal and state governments).
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by biggermike 6y ago
I can't speak for the entirety of the Europe but from my experience with certain countries in the EU, there is a pervasive culture of avoiding risk at all costs in favor of stability. The culture extends from the government to investo
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by biggermike 6y ago
> is 1 really true? we have elections every 2 years for it. how many periods of time have we had no change in control of the senate or the house for 4 2 straight elections? what about fo 4 straight? vs how many times we've had dual
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by biggermike 6y ago
1) Congressional leadership tends to change hands less often than presidential. 2) I'd argue that the two powers are separable. The subgroup writing the rules tends to be different from the one executing them. There's also nothi
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by biggermike 6y ago
You don't even need to look as far as Canada to see what single payer healthcare implementation will look like in the US. Hospitals in the US that disproportionately serve populations on Medicaid/Medicare are notorious for their
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by biggermike 6y ago
The US has universal healthcare. If you're poor or elderly, you have access government provided insurance. If you're near poverty, you have access to government healthcare subsidies. For everyone else, it's illegal to not
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by biggermike 6y ago
There's no reason Congress can't staff their own career professionals.
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by biggermike 6y ago
What makes you think such an amendment would have enough support to pass? Prior attempts at Social Security reform which diverted as little as 15% of assets away from treasuries were incredibly unpopular.
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by biggermike 6y ago
> Policy-wise, I would like to capital gains reform and strict responsibility for congress when making financial decisions (eg no more "borrowing" from SS/Medicare, pass a budget as required in the Constitution, etc). I se
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by biggermike 6y ago
What happens when the other country isn't willing to sell? Consider a war or other disaster e.g. in the months before the pandemic, China stopped the export of face masks and other PPE, resulting in shortages in hospitals around the w
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by biggermike 6y ago
They can still sell their inventory e.g. impressions and clicks, but they wouldn't run the DSP/SSP (just like other ad supported publishers).
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by biggermike 6y ago
> Amazon promoting its own brands isn't much different from a supermarket offering its own brand items. Apple isn't a monopoly in phones because of Android. And Google's search is so inherently tied to selling ads as a bus
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by biggermike 6y ago
This isn't an argument over the merits of the ACA. Many of are fine with Universal Healthcare but not with deluding ourselves into thinking that it's a free lunch. It's a statement of fact intended to address the false prem
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by biggermike 6y ago
It's very rare to have direct proof of the effect of an economic/regulatory intervention, but luckily, in this case, we do. We've had a decade a survey data that indicates exactly what the effect the ACA had on employer prov
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by biggermike 6y ago
> And that is a risk assessment lenders would need to make. This is how all debt works. This is irrelevant as the federal government is the owner of nearly all student debt, which is how they are able to forgive them in the first place.
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by biggermike 6y ago
Not as contradictory as the speaker is making it out to be. The organization can be poorly managed but still price out competition via a state subsidized business model that would be unsustainable for anyone else.
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by biggermike 6y ago
> high amount of start-up capital AND high regulatory hurdles AND the low margins Not independent variables. The large wired broadband ISPs already enjoy economies of scale (access to capital, army of lawyers, etc.) and operate at slim
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by biggermike 6y ago
Building in dense urban areas carries its own set of problems akin to how pushing changes to a live product can be more difficult than hacking one together from scratch. It requires aligning many stakeholders who often have conflicting inte
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by biggermike 6y ago
Big tech has big profit margins. Big telecom services doesn't. Competitors don't enter the industry because there's little money to be made. The only way you make money by starting an independent ISP right now is by serving
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by biggermike 6y ago
> Not really, Big Tech pays H1Bs competitive salaries That doesn't challenge the argument. Wages are set by supply and demand, expand the supply and wages fall. It doesn't matter if H1B wages are similar to a U.S. residents;
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by biggermike 6y ago
US GDP Q1 -1.25% Q2 -9% The US reports annualized decreases.
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by biggermike 6y ago
He was armed. That is not in dispute. See [here]( https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/kenosha-police-union-gives-its-... ). You could also see the knife in his hands in the video and hear the officers tell him to drop the kn
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by biggermike 6y ago
Prior to the tax return story, a number of stories were published inconsistent with both the NYT story and often with each other. Twitter seemed to have no issue with the proliferation of these stories. Add to that, the unchecked spread o
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by biggermike 6y ago
Students need to be clustered according to their abilities and interests. Not doing so is impractical at best and wasteful at worst. Different subsets of students require different amounts of attention, different specialties, different cla
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by biggermike 6y ago
I'm not sure what's more nauseating: the fact that we're willing to destroy the best schools in the country to improve poorly defined diversity metrics or the author's sheer horror that white people may benefit from the